Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Who Should Rule at Home?
Confronting the Elite in British New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City’s evolution from 1664, when the English captured the small Dutch outpost of New Amsterdam, to the eve of American independence in 1776 were far from...
In the Words of E. B. White
Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a world war."—E. B. White on fatherhood
"I was lucky to be born abnormal. It ran in the family."—on luck
"I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else." —on Maine
"The English language is always...
Weapons of Mass Migration
Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
At first glance, the U.S. decision to escalate the war in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, China's position on North Korea's nuclear program in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the EU resolution to lift what remained of the arms embargo against Libya in the mid-2000s would appear to share little in common....
Jew Boy
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Jew Boy is Alan Kaufman's riveting memoir of being raised by a Jewish mother who survived the Holocaust. This pioneering masterpiece, the very first memoir of its kind by a member of the Second Generation is Kaufman's coming-of-age account, by turns hilarious and terrifying, written with irreverent...
"Who, What Am I?"
Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
"God only knows how many diverse, captivating impressions and thoughts evoked by these impressions... pass in a single day. If it were only possible to render them in such a way that I could easily read myself and that others could read me as I do..." Such was the desire of the young Tolstoy. Although...
In the Words of Frederick Douglass
Quotations from Liberty's Champion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"No people are more talked about and no people seem more imperfectly understood. Those who see us every day seem not to know us."—Frederick Douglass on African Americans
"There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough,...
The Fleeting Promise of Art
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
A discussion of Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory is bound to look significantly different today than it would have looked when the book was first published in 1970, or when it first appeared in English translation in the 1980s. In The Fleeting Promise of Art, Peter Uwe Hohendahl reexamines Aesthetic...
The Consumption of Justice
Emotions, Publicity, and Legal Culture in Marseille, 1264–1423
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the ideas and practices of justice in Europe underwent significant change as procedures were transformed and criminal and civil caseloads grew apace. Drawing on the rich judicial records of Marseille from the years 1264 to 1423, especially records of civil...
The Criminalization of Abortion in the West
Its Origins in Medieval Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Anyone who wants to understand how abortion has been treated historically in the western legal tradition must first come to terms with two quite different but interrelated historical trajectories. On one hand, there is the ancient Judeo-Christian condemnation of prenatal homicide as a wrong warranting...
Brotherly Love
Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Friendship, an acquired relationship primarily based on choice rather than birth, lay at the heart of Enlightenment preoccupations with sociability and the formation of the private sphere. In Brotherly Love, Kenneth Loiselle argues that Freemasonry is an ideal arena in which to explore the changing...
Aversion and Erasure
The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
In Aversion and Erasure, Carolyn J. Dean offers a bold account of how the Holocaust's status as humanity's most terrible example of evil has shaped contemporary discourses about victims in the West. Popular and scholarly attention to the Holocaust has led some observers to conclude that a "surfeit...
by Timothy J. Reiss
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism, Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class...
by Peter van Van Inwagen
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 1990
According to Peter van Inwagen, visible inanimate objects do not, strictly speaking, exist. In defending this controversial thesis, he offers fresh insights on such topics as personal identity, commonsense belief, existence over time, the phenomenon of vagueness, and the relation between metaphysics and ordinary language.
The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus
Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
"Perhaps Hermeticism has fascinated so many people precisely because it has made it possible to produce many analogies and relationships to various traditions: to Platonism in its many varieties, to Stoicism, to Gnostic ideas, and even to certain Aristotelian doctrines. The Gnostic, the esoteric,...